"Flash" Homes Lacked Tenants
The population pf New York City is shrinking.. 1950 census — the last one completed — showed the city's population at 7,891,957. Since then whole blocks of three, four and five storey residences and tenements have been razed to make way for 10, 12 and 15-storey apartment houses, glittering with chrome ium and glass. To the City Fathers, it seemed obvious that a 15-storey apartment house must shelter more people than a five-storey tenement. \ So they ordered a new census in the hope of getting more money from the New York State authorities. But they discovered that new apartment houses hold fewer people. Rents are so high - — 80 to 100 doliars (£36 to £45) a room a montll — that relatively few people with children can afford to live in them. To stave off a cut in State aid, takers of the new census have started counting such temporary residents as the midgets in the visiting circus and sailors on the visiting carrier Saratoga.
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Taupo Times, Volume VI, Issue 285, 25 July 1957, Page 11
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165"Flash" Homes Lacked Tenants Taupo Times, Volume VI, Issue 285, 25 July 1957, Page 11
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